National Alliance on Mental Illness

nonprofit advocacy organization

National Alliance on Mental Illness

Industry Mental Health

A large mental-health advocacy nonprofit that provides education, support, and policy advocacy while formally supporting involuntary civil commitment as a last-resort intervention. National Alliance on Mental Illness remains weak because of documented human harm, person-dependent governance, and coercive violence, even where the product or service has practical value.

Why this matters: NAMI is a calibration case for benevolent family-and-peer advocacy that still accepts nonconsensual psychiatric authority in some cases.

Letter grade D Extractive Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 24* D - Extractive

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material36
Bonus+4
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap40
Penalties-16
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Evaluation Overview

D - Extractive

The score turns mainly on Ownership, with the largest penalty coming from Reversibility.

Strengths

  • Ownership5/10
  • Extraction5/10
  • Governance4/10

Penalties

  • Reversibility-5
  • Human Harm-5
  • Coercive Violence-4
  • Identity Capture-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims9
  • Direct axis claims9
  • Coverage9/17

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
5 / 10

NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 118 scored entries below, 6 tied, 102 above on Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • context NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. [1]
  • context NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
  • context NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
4 / 10

NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 108 scored entries below, 18 tied, 100 above on Governance.

Linked evidence
  • context NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. [1]
  • context NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
  • context NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
5 / 10

NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 95 scored entries below, 19 tied, 112 above on Extraction.

Linked evidence
  • context NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. [1]
  • context NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
  • context NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
3 / 7

NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 45 scored entries below, 66 tied, 115 above on Labor Sovereignty.

Linked evidence
  • context NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. [1]
  • context NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
  • context NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
4 / 7

NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 127 scored entries below, 30 tied, 69 above on Solidarity with the Unemployed.

Linked evidence
  • context NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. [1]
  • context NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
  • context NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
4 / 7

NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 88 scored entries below, 30 tied, 108 above on Loss-Bearing Fidelity.

Linked evidence
  • context NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. [1]
  • context NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
  • context NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5

NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 106 scored entries below, 73 tied, 47 above on Market Conduct.

Linked evidence
  • context NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. [1]
  • context NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
  • context NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
3 / 5

NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 37 scored entries below, 23 tied, 166 above on Product Integrity.

Uncertainty
  • Priority page: add more axis-specific research over time to make the comparative placement harder to dispute.
Linked evidence
  • NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. [1]
  • context NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
  • context NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 109 scored entries below, 81 tied, 36 above on Scale Integrity.

Linked evidence
  • context NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. [1]
  • context NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
  • context NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Reversibility
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Applied when positive conduct depends on current living leaders, founders, family owners, or other person-contingent governance rather than durable structure. Range: -5 to 0.
-5

NAMI offers public support and advocacy value, but its policy stance is nonprofit-board governed and not structurally locked by the affected people most exposed to coercive treatment.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 95 tied, 131 above on Reversibility.

Linked evidence
  • NAMI offers public support and advocacy value, but its policy stance is nonprofit-board governed and not structurally locked by the affected people most exposed to coercive treatment. [7]
Human Harm
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Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense, reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to 0.
-5

NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 41 scored entries below, 6 tied, 179 above on Human Harm.

Linked evidence
  • NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. [3]
Coercive Violence
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Direct or institutionally enabled killing, torture, detention abuse, armed repression, forced displacement, violent domination, or nonconsensual crisis-line emergency escalation that exposes callers to confinement or force. Range: -30 to 0.
-4

NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 15 scored entries below, 2 tied, 209 above on Coercive Violence.

Linked evidence
  • NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. [2]
Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

NAMI’s involuntary-commitment policy turns on diagnostic categories such as serious mental illness and court-ordered treatment eligibility, creating a limited diagnostic identity-capture exposure.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 24 scored entries below, 6 tied, 196 above on Identity Capture.

Linked evidence
  • NAMI’s involuntary-commitment policy turns on diagnostic categories such as serious mental illness and court-ordered treatment eligibility, creating a limited diagnostic identity-capture exposure. [8]
Ideological Disavowal
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Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

National Alliance on Mental Illness's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because National Alliance on Mental Illness shows bounded neutrality theater: some…

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Ideological Disavowal 0 to -3 recalibration: 0 for explicit standpoint or no penalty-level neutrality theater; -1 for bounded softening of contested choices; -2 for strong neutrality theater by a powerful institution; -3 for major gatekeeping or coercive power presented as neutral, necessary, objective, or non-ideological.

Uncertainty
  • This recalibration uses public self-presentation and profile evidence; later review should add direct language-analysis evidence for high-impact institutions.
Linked evidence
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because National Alliance on Mental Illness shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through expertise, public-interest, professional, market, safety, or institutional language, but the record does not show dominant concealment of standpoint. [9]

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
2 / 3

NAMI’s policy page publicly acknowledges controversy and emotional difficulty around involuntary civil commitment and states support in constrained last-resort terms rather than presenting commitment as unqualified.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 200 scored entries below, 15 tied, 11 above on Openness to Dissent.

Linked evidence
  • NAMI’s policy page publicly acknowledges controversy and emotional difficulty around involuntary civil commitment and states support in constrained last-resort terms rather than presenting commitment as unqualified. [4]
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
1 / 3

NAMI’s policy expressly affirms that people should have the right to make their own mental-health treatment decisions whenever possible, while retaining a last-resort exception.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 182 scored entries below, 5 tied, 39 above on Constitutional Spirit.

Linked evidence
  • NAMI’s policy expressly affirms that people should have the right to make their own mental-health treatment decisions whenever possible, while retaining a last-resort exception. [5]
Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
1 / 3

NAMI provides free public help, education, crisis-navigation information, and support-group infrastructure, creating noncommercial public value despite policy problems around commitment.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 163 scored entries below, 21 tied, 42 above on Good Deal.

Linked evidence
  • NAMI provides free public help, education, crisis-navigation information, and support-group infrastructure, creating noncommercial public value despite policy problems around commitment. [6]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 69/100

9 verified linked claims 9 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 9/17 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 14/20

9 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

9 direct claims across 17 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 5/10

9/17 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.

Product Integrity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

2NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests.

Coercive Violence Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone.

Human Harm Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

4NAMI’s policy page publicly acknowledges controversy and emotional difficulty around involuntary civil commitment and states support in constrained last-resort terms rather than presenting commitment as unqualified.

Openness To Dissent Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

5NAMI’s policy expressly affirms that people should have the right to make their own mental-health treatment decisions whenever possible, while retaining a last-resort exception.

Constitutional Spirit Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

6NAMI provides free public help, education, crisis-navigation information, and support-group infrastructure, creating noncommercial public value despite policy problems around commitment.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

7NAMI offers public support and advocacy value, but its policy stance is nonprofit-board governed and not structurally locked by the affected people most exposed to coercive treatment.

Reversibility Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

8NAMI’s involuntary-commitment policy turns on diagnostic categories such as serious mental illness and court-ordered treatment eligibility, creating a limited diagnostic identity-capture exposure.

Identity Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

9National Alliance on Mental Illness's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because National Alliance on Mental Illness shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through expertise, public-interest, professional, market, safety, or institutional language, but the record does not show dominant concealment of standpoint.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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